Chapter Summaries

Fang Yuan introduced Warlock Jian, who recounted how she became a demigod after leaving Archmage City and inheriting a lich’s legacy. After Christian reported that Lone Mountain Fortress held a rare Arcane Mechanical Armament force and might be linked to a deity from the Mist Main World, Fang Yuan ordered a swift attack and learned Jian could cast a disaster-level forbidden spell.

• Fang Yuan introduced Warlock Jian to the heroes, and Jian told Helen how she had left Archmage City, killed a lich seeking the Creation Magic Rune, and inherited his legacy.
• Helen called Jian’s rise an example of hardship creating demigods, but Jian replied that her hardships came from injustice; Fang Yuan stopped their argument.
• Christian reported that Lone Mountain Fortress was lightly defended and held the only known surviving Arcane Mechanical Armament force.
• Christian warned that a deity behind the armaments might come from the Mist Main World, prompting Fang Yuan to order a plan to seize the fortress quickly.
• Christian said the plan required a forbidden spell and Lilith, but Fang Yuan revealed that Jian also knew a disaster-level forbidden spell.

Fang Yuan revealed that Jian had mastered the legendary Scourge-level Forbidden Spell Infinite Disintegration, shocking Helen and Christian. After explaining Jian’s research skills and terrifying potential, Fang Yuan left the attack on Lone Mountain Fortress to Christian.

• Helen insisted that no one outside Archmage City had mastered a Scourge-level Forbidden Spell, and admitted she had not mastered one herself.
• Fang Yuan showed Jian’s panel, and Helen recognized Infinite Disintegration as a legendary spatial spell unknown even to Archmage City’s spatial mages.
• Jian explained that she had learned from the Wandering Mages and created Infinite Disintegration by combining their theories with wicked energy.
• Fang Yuan described Jian’s research abilities, including enhancing his magic runes, modifying creatures, corrupting magic runes, and recombining magical energies.
• Christian realized Jian’s power might one day let her slay gods, but Fang Yuan said their immediate goal was taking Lone Mountain Fortress and assigned the task to Christian.

Christian laid out a plan to draw Lone Mountain Fortress’s defenders into battle and destroy them, while Fang Yuan learned how great the gap was between their forces and the Magitech Armored Legion. The group prepared to begin the attack within half an hour, leaving the mysteries of the Great Calamity unresolved.

• Christian explained that his forces would lure Lone Mountain Fortress’s defenders out before attacking the fortress, and Jane’s strength made victory there certain.
• Fang Yuan questioned whether Breni, Kubbo, and Mage Meg could defeat the guard legion, and Christian revealed that most defenders were weak Mechanical Servants.
• Christian assigned the legions to attack the guards and outlined a costly plan to trap the reinforcements, with Jane destroying their magic runes and releasing a forbidden spell.
• Fang Yuan accepted that defeating the Magitech Armored Legion could require sacrificing tens of thousands of Golden Legion soldiers.
• Helen asked why few heroes came from the late Glory Era, and Christian suggested their souls might have become Mist Lords or Divine Power Puppets.
• Fang Yuan ordered Christian to begin the assault and sent Breni to gather the participating legions and heroes from the Wasteland Territory.

Colonel Ivan and Pasha guarded Lone Mountain Fortress while the governor campaigned against the Nossa Empire, but Pasha sensed danger from the west. Christian and Vanas prepared an ambush as Kubo led the Thorn Flower Knights against the fortress’s outer garrison, and Breni moved to block enemy reinforcements.

• Colonel Ivan dismissed Pasha’s warning about danger from the west but sent Solan’s hundred-man cavalry squad to scout.
• Christian, Aria, and Helen joined Vanas and concealed their forces near Lone Mountain Fortress, expecting the defenders to pour out.
• Breni, Kubo, and Mage Meg organized their forces, and Kubo led the Thorn Flower Knights in an attack on the garrison camp.
• Breni’s Demon Knights spotted a hundred Arcane Mechanical Armored Cavalry reinforcements, so she sent word to the lord and ordered her knights to hold them back.

At the Great Necropolis, Fis and the other heroes learned that Lone Mountain Fortress’s Arcane Mechanical Armaments threatened their forces, and they sent legions to intercept them. Fis’s Savage Berserkers brought down the flying war machines, leaving the battle tilted against the retreating Arcane Mechanical Knights.

• Guderian reported that Kobo had surrounded the sentry legion and eliminated its Mechanical Servants, though ten Arcane Mechanical Knights remained difficult to defeat.
• After receiving word that around one hundred Arcane Mechanical Armaments were advancing, Fis led the Savage Berserkers to support Breni, while Albert followed and Guderian prepared to inform Fang Yuan.
• Breni’s Demon Knights repeatedly charged and withdrew to delay the Arcane Mechanical Knights, forcing Soran to switch from cannon form to a faster flying form.
• Fis’s Savage Berserkers leaped onto the low-flying machines, battered them with their skills, and helped Fis destroy two with his Silver Moon Enemy-Shattering Slash.
• Fis activated Barbarian God Bloodline and cut down more Arcane Mechanical Armaments as Solan ordered the survivors to retreat toward Lone Mountain Fortress.

Christian waited outside Lone Mountain Fortress until its cavalry force rode out and turned back, confirming the fortress's defenders were testing for an ambush. With the enemy now heading west to reinforce Solan, Christian ordered an attack to seize the fortress.

• Pasha warned Ivan that the Blue Star Lords might be using Solan's predicament to lure the fortress's defenders away, and proposed a probe to expose any ambush.
• Ivan led the Arcane Mechanical Armored Knights out of Lone Mountain Fortress, then turned back halfway while Pasha stayed behind to guard it.
• Christian resisted Vanas, Helen, and Aria's calls to attack until she saw the cavalry return, recognizing that the enemy had turned around to test them.
• Ivan ordered his knights into their third form and sent the fortress's forces west again to reinforce Solan.
• Christian ordered her troops to prepare for fifteen minutes and then attack Lone Mountain Fortress.

Christian and the holy knights attacked Lone Mountain Fortress while the true Pasha’s Soul fought for control of Pasha’s body. Christian killed the fortress defenders and recovered a remnant soul, then ordered Vanas to report back so the lord could ignite the Civilization Fire and complete the occupation.

• Pasha ordered the fortress guards to prepare its weapons, but the true Pasha’s Soul awakened and battled the divine puppet soul within his body.
• Christian led Aria, Vanas, Helen, and two hundred holy knights in a plan to exploit the Magic Crystal Main Cannon’s charging delay and storm the fortress.
• Christian and her allies appeared atop the walls, and the defenders failed to fire the main cannon as Aria and the holy knights attacked.
• Christian broke into the governor’s residence and killed Pasha after detecting that he was a heretic, leaving behind a remnant soul orb.
• After Aria reported that the garrison had been wiped out, Christian sent Vanas to Paladin Castle to inform the lord to ignite the Civilization Fire and finish occupying the fortress.

Fang Yuan waited for news as the reinforcements from Lone Mountain Fortress broke through Fis's defensive line and advanced toward the traps laid by Gudrian and Albert. He sent Breni and Jian to prepare the forbidden spell, ordering them to protect their heroes above all else.

• Fang Yuan learned that the Golden Legion had killed ten Arcane Mechanical Armored Knights and asked whether there was any news about Fis.
• Breni reported that the Demon Knights had been annihilated after delaying Lone Mountain Fortress's reinforcements for less than half an hour.
• Fang Yuan and Breni suspected that the reinforcements had paused to test whether Christian's forces were attacking Lone Mountain Fortress, and Breni suggested Christian might have seen through the scheme.
• A Paladin reported that the reinforcements had killed Fis's Savage Berserkers, forcing Fis to retreat, and were advancing toward Gudrian's and Albert's defensive lines.
• Fang Yuan sent Breni and Jian to the designated battlefield to prepare the forbidden spell, ordering them to use it only if all heroes were safe.

Ivan led the Magitech Armored Legion into a trap, destroyed Fang Yuan’s Magic Crystal Gun and Cannon positions, and ordered a retreat. Jian then unleashed a forbidden spell that disintegrated Ivan and his legion, and she collapsed after telling Breni to report their victory to the lord.

• Ivan accelerated his advance after learning that his legion had lost five Arcane Mechanical Armored Knights in battle with the Savage Berserkers.
• Gudrian ordered the Black Young Dragons and Dragon Spear Knights to charge Ivan’s forces while the other legions prepared an ambush.
• Ivan broke through the attackers and destroyed the Magic Crystal Gun and Cannon positions, but found no sign of Solan.
• Ivan ordered his legion to retreat after discovering they were surrounded by more than fifty thousand enemy soldiers.
• A spatial anomaly immobilized Ivan and his troops, and an unseen force decomposed them.
• Jian told Breni that the enemies had all been disintegrated without injuring the encircling soldiers, then fell unconscious.

Fang Yuan occupied Lone Mountain Fortress and discovered its powerful Golden-quality facilities and military production, but Christian revealed that a 100,000-strong Divine Power Puppet army was marching on the Nossa Empire. With enemy patrols already approaching, Fang Yuan had only half a day to prepare the fortress for defense.

• Fang Yuan confirmed his occupation of Lone Mountain Fortress and inspected its buildings, defenses, and production, including its Arcane Mechanical Armored Knight Camp.
• Fang Yuan learned that Jane had exhausted her corrupted energy after destroying the encircling knights with a forbidden spell, and he ordered her and the other legions back to the Wasteland Territory.
• Fang Yuan arrived at Lone Mountain Fortress, praised Christian for capturing it, and ordered plans to connect it to his other territories.
• Christian warned Fang Yuan that a 100,000-strong Golden Legion, including at least 30,000 Arcane Mechanical Armored Knights, was advancing to conquer the Nossa Empire; Helen explained that the Mist Deity had preserved the army as Divine Power Puppets.
• Christian said upgrading Lone Mountain Fortress and producing at least 30,000 defenders could raise their odds of victory, but a report revealed ten enemy cavalry scouts were only thirty li away.
• Christian offered to eliminate the scouts, warning that doing so would leave Fang Yuan only half a day to prepare, and Fang Yuan accepted the shortened deadline.

Fang Yuan recruited Pasha's Remnant Soul, hoping the former guardian would explain how to upgrade Lone Mountain Fortress. Meanwhile, Aria pursued enemy patrol soldiers who could expose the fortress's capture, and Helen hurried back to warn Fang Yuan that the fortress might be safe for less than five hours.

• Fang Yuan found Pasha's Remnant Soul in Lone Mountain Fortress and transferred paladins, Magic Crystal Cannons, and Magic Crystal Gun Infantry to defend the fortress before returning to Wasteland Territory.
• Two hidden patrol soldiers discovered that Lone Mountain Fortress had been occupied and retreated to report the loss to the Holy Son.
• The patrol soldiers encountered Aria after she defeated their vice-captain, and their captain ordered them to flee rather than fight.
• Aria pursued the fleeing soldiers while Helen sped toward Lone Mountain Fortress to warn Fang Yuan that its safe period could be less than five hours.
• Fang Yuan placed Pasha's Remnant Soul on the Sage Altar and recruited him; Pasha emerged and thanked his new lord.

Fang Yuan recruited Pasha, a Golden Hero from the late Glory Era, and learned that his command-focused skills reflected the Nossa Empire’s magitech-industrial military. With Pasha as his witness, Fang Yuan swore allegiance to the Nossa Empire, became governor of Lone Mountain Fortress, and unlocked a unique Dark Gold quest.

• Pasha thanked Fang Yuan for freeing him and pledged to become his sword, then joined him as a Golden Hero.
• Fang Yuan examined Pasha’s skills and concluded that the late-era Nossa Empire relied on commanders and massed soldiers rather than individual fighters.
• Pasha explained that Fang Yuan could inherit a Nossa title by swearing an oath, which would also qualify him to govern Lone Mountain Fortress.
• Fang Yuan swore allegiance to the Nossa Empire with Pasha as his witness, converting his faction and becoming a baron and governor of Lone Mountain Fortress.
• The Lord’s Mark reduced Fang Yuan’s nobility prestige and territorial outputs, increased the war god’s hatred, and unlocked the unique Dark Gold Quest, Nossa’s Restoration.

After reaching Level 10, Fang Yuan examined the Dark Gold quest to restore the Nossa Empire, then returned to Lone Mountain Fortress and appointed Pasha to defend it. He upgraded the fortress to Level Five, exhausting his resources, and planned to check whether the Middle Earth lords had paid their compensation.

• Fang Yuan inspected the Nossa's Restoration quest and learned it would reward him with one of three Dark Gold buildings, but decided to postpone it until he was stronger.
• Fang Yuan returned to Lone Mountain Fortress with Pasha and explained that the Mist World's God of War would likely send forces to reclaim it.
• Fang Yuan appointed Pasha captain of the fortress garrison, and Pasha explained that its defenses required troops equipped for the magical industrial era.
• Fang Yuan upgraded Lone Mountain Fortress to Level Five, using up his Golden Source Crystals and resources.
• Fang Yuan decided to find Zhao Zixiao and check whether the Middle Earth lords' compensation payments had arrived.

Zhao Zixiao struggled to decide how to allocate vacant Central Continent territory, while Fang Yuan used the ransom haul from its lords to upgrade Lone Mountain Fortress and advance his nobility rank. Fang Yuan became the first lord to reach King, gaining a powerful territory buff and a Nobility Treasure Chest.

• Zhao Zixiao rejected Ren Yuan's offer for the vacant Central Continent lands and asked Fang Yuan how to handle them.
• Zhao Zixiao reported the ransom haul, including six hundred billion in resources and ten Forbidden Spell Scrolls, to Fang Yuan.
• Fang Yuan told Zhao Zixiao to let other Blue Star alliances develop the unclaimed lands and put the ransom items into his shop.
• Fang Yuan used the resources to upgrade Lone Mountain Fortress to level ten, then raised his Nobility Prestige to Duke and gained Forced Conscription.
• Fang Yuan spent nearly all his Prestige Items to reach King, earning a King-grade territory buff, the skills Bestowal and Forced Conscription, a Nobility Treasure Chest, and increased Hero Loyalty.

After receiving the King Grade title, Fang Yuan used Forced Conscription to reinforce Lone Mountain Fortress and Enfeoffment to give Pasha authority over it. He began planning to assign other territories to heroes, but grew uneasy when Christian failed to return from intercepting the Scout Legion.

• Fang Yuan discovered that the King Grade title had increased his population by three million and amplified territory production and building durability fiftyfold.
• Fang Yuan used Forced Conscription to summon thirty days of troops at Lone Mountain Fortress, then sent some away when the fortress became overcrowded.
• Pasha assured Fang Yuan that the enlarged garrison could defend Lone Mountain Fortress, and Fang Yuan ordered him to arrange the defenses.
• Fang Yuan enfeoffed Pasha, granting him partial authority over Lone Mountain Fortress and raising his loyalty to 100 points.
• Fang Yuan considered enfeoffing other heroes with territories, then ordered one hundred Arcane Mechanical Armored Knights to search for Christian, who had not returned from intercepting the Scout Legion.

Christian and Aria killed the pursuing Arcane Mechanical Armored Knights and returned to Lone Mountain Fortress, where they learned that the fortress had been secured. After the enemy governor discovered the patrol’s fallen knights, he ordered his army to march on the fortress.

• An Arcane Mechanical Armored Knight fled toward a temporary camp, but Christian intercepted and killed him while Aria caught up.
• Christian and Aria withdrew, judging that the enemy would soon find the bodies and that they could not safely keep fighting.
• They met Helen and more than a hundred Arcane Mechanical Armored Knights, who reported that the lord had secured Lone Mountain Fortress with over nine thousand knights and appointed Pasha as its commander.
• The enemy governor’s soldiers discovered the fallen patrol, prompting the governor to order his entire army to break camp and advance on Lone Mountain Fortress.

Fang Yuan and his heroes prepared to hold Lone Mountain Fortress against Muer’s besieging army while advancing plans to upgrade their main city. After Muer sent a force toward their western territory, Christian persuaded Fang Yuan to authorize a strike against it, leaving Pasha to defend the fortress.

• Aria, Christian, Pasha, and Helen discussed the siege and possible attacks on Paladin Castle and the Great Necropolis Resource Territory, so Fang Yuan ordered two hundred thousand defense troops to support those locations.
• Muer tested Lone Mountain Fortress’s defenses, but Fang Yuan refused to send Christian out and chose to hold the city while discussing the remaining requirements for a Level 11 main city.
• A Nossa Empire knight recognized Lone Mountain Fortress’s defenses as matching the Royal Infantry Academy’s formations, and Muer sent Mega with three thousand Arcane Armament Knights to probe the western territory and prepare an ambush.
• Fang Yuan reviewed the remaining city-upgrade conditions, including defeating a major legion and capturing a Miracle Building, while Gu Xiaosang was tasked with finding the building.
• After Pasha reported the enemy force marching west, Christian proposed attacking it with eight thousand troops; Pasha confirmed she could defend the fortress, and Fang Yuan authorized Christian, Helen, and Aria to carry out the strike with Fis.

Fang Yuan and Christian coordinated an ambush against Muir’s Arcane Mechanical Armored Knights before their patrol network could be completed. Christian’s six thousand knights destroyed Mega Knight’s force in the swamp, and he moved to intercept the remaining five thousand reinforcements.

• Muir dismissed Negar’s concerns about an ambush, then sent Negar with five thousand Arcane Mechanical Armored Knights and ten thousand Mechanical Servants to establish patrol checkpoints.
• Fang Yuan learned that the reinforcements were building checkpoints and sent Christian a warning, along with the territory’s remaining one thousand Arcane Mechanical Armored Knights.
• Christian used a Demon Eye’s intelligence to locate Mega Knight’s three thousand Arcane Mechanical Armored Knights and planned a coordinated attack with Aria, Helen, and Fis.
• Pasha arrived with Fang Yuan’s reinforcements and warned Christian that he had only forty-five minutes to complete the battle and withdraw if necessary.
• Christian’s six thousand knights surprised Mega Knight’s resting force before most of them could don their armaments, killing the defenders and suffering no losses.
• After about eight hundred enemies escaped and Aria, Helen, and Fis pursued them, Christian rallied his force to intercept the remaining five-thousand-strong reinforcement army.

Christian's forces routed Negar's Arcane Mechanical Armored Knights, but Governor Muer arrived with reinforcements as the survivors withdrew. Christian stayed behind with a hundred knights to face Muer's army, which was astonished by how few defenders remained.

• Christian teleported his knights into Negar's formation, destroyed its second-form defenses, and pursued the fleeing survivors with Fis, whose six hundred knights collided head-on with Negar's force and died alongside them.
• Muer sensed danger, investigated the western forest, and sent search formations to find Negar while ordering his remaining troops to prepare for battle.
• Helen eliminated the last of Negar's five thousand knights, and Christian, Aria, and Helen regrouped after suffering heavy losses while annihilating eight thousand enemies.
• After learning that enemy reinforcements had arrived, Christian ordered the remaining forces to retreat and stayed behind with a hundred Arcane Mechanical Armored Knights.
• Christian led his hundred knights toward the forest's edge and encountered Muer's army, whose soldiers reported the tiny force to their governor.

Christian’s hundred Magitech Armored Knights bluffed Mull’s vastly larger army into retreating from Lone Mountain Fortress, while Fang Yuan prepared to return to Wasteland Territory and strengthen his forces. The God of War then awakened another Saint and rallied the Mist deities against the Mist Main God, who withdrew after warning them not to challenge him again.

• Mull mistook Christian’s charge with a hundred knights and reports of Lone Mountain Fortress mobilizing for an ambush, so he fled with his army; Christian then ordered his squad back to Lone Mountain Fortress.
• Pasha explained how his knowledge of Mull helped prompt the bluff, and Christian warned Fang Yuan not to pursue the retreating enemy because a desperate counterattack could cost them their remaining knights.
• Fang Yuan ordered Lone Mountain Fortress to hold its position and returned with Christian to Wasteland Territory to pursue the next upgrade condition.
• Mull learned that no one had chased his army, but after counting eight thousand lost Arcane Mechanical Armored Knights and six thousand Mechanical Servants, he abandoned the siege and sought guidance from Father God.
• The God of War awakened a second Saint, ordered Mull to avoid Fang Yuan and take Nossa Royal Capital, then confronted the Mist Main God alongside the gathered Mist deities.
• The Mist Main God withdrew after the deities threatened that killing them could expose the Mist World to powerful outsiders, and warned that he would kill them if they challenged him again.